Melanie Stryder

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Melanie is severly pissing me off in what i have read so far.

Why does she piss you off? She annoys me as well...

i actually like her. she's got guts and an actual personality, which can't have been easy to write. i love the progression from hatred to friendship. i think stephenie did that really REALLY well: it was fairly subtle and completely natural.

I like her but she can be a bit, well, snobish like a she cares about is herself without realizing that Wanderer is now a part of her

yeah, but would you? i mean, if an alien marched into your head and said, "ha, look at me! i'm in charge now! go away and let me take over your life and kill your family" what would you do? i'd be a bit self-centered too.

At first... Melanie is a complicated character who grows to love Wanda in the end. I do like Melanie. She is the strong type of girl but she is a bit obsessed with Jared. It's kinda creepy.

I agree with slashy snow eagle and a bit of momo's as well. Mel grows to love Wanda so much so she doesn't want to get her life back at the expense of Wanda's.

yeah. by the end, of course, they would both die for the other... except that their dying would kill the other, so it wouldn't really work. but she has every right to be obsessed with jared. she isn't any more obsessed with him than bella is with edward, after all...

True, very, very true.

I really liked Melanie's character she was strong and provided the story but I like Wanda better

melanie is still irritating me...

mel's the kind of person i'd like to meet. wanda... i'm not sure i'd get along with wanda. she's a bit too sweet and goody-goody and willing to please. mel's got a backbone and a temper.

I liked Melanie. She was just a really strong character, I think, and she developed well through the whole book. I liked how Melanie had flaws, like how she had a bit of a temper and some jealousy issues and all that. I agree - she's the kind of person I'd want to meet. I'd still want to meet Wanda, because I liked her too. Actually it's kind of a toss up between Mel and Wanda... I don't know which one I like better

well Melanie is the srong willed person I'd love to be but I'm more of a people pleaser like Wanda so yeah liked them both and I loved he bond they had by the end when they were still in the same body.

Yeah, I agree. I'm probably more like Wanda in a lot of ways, but in the bad ways too... Melanie has more guts, I'd say. But for Wanda, it would have taken a lot of guts to abandon her own species. So that's kind of a lost argument

I liked the bond they had, too. It was really cool that Melanie didn't want Wanda to sacrifice herself even if it meant she could have her body (and Jared) back. I guess it shows that Melanie kind of developed some soul-ish qualities by the end.

yeah overall I loved the book and I hope there is a sequel

Oh man, I named my concince (sp?) Mel... See, she apparently hates all my friends. lol I was in the middle of talking to one of my friends and really enjoying the conversation. I took a drink and set it back down. When I looked at Melissa she was looking around for someone and then she asked me if I told her 'Shut up'? I have no memory what so ever of saying anything along those lines.
Then I was talking to Miranda and apparently I said 'slut' in the middle of a sentence... lol I, again, have no memory of saying any of this.

wow... that's kinda creepy. at least my voices don't take control. it really sucks that your voice hates your friends, though... you shouls ask her why.